Jean Paul’s 1796 text “Speech of the Dead Christ” served as inspiration for the music presented on this split album by Daniel Menche and William Fowler Collins, which is immense, harrowing, and numinous. Like the procession of images conjured in Jean Paul’s twisting passages, the sounds made by Collins and Menche unfurl in a trail of drifting shadow punctuated by convulsive spasms of light.